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Cool! Would like to see that! I believe that there is a beach somewhere in the eastern Cape, where porcelain shards sometimes wash up. Not sure which beach however. I read a couple of years ago of a women who was researching the origins of these shards, apparently a dutch ship that sunk of the coast. The ship was loaded with Silk, porcelain and other far eastern delights bound for Europe from Cathay (Modern Day China). The ship floundered somewhere off the Eastern Cape coast. Apparently there are still some shards that wash up on a regular basis.

I found the genus of your Cactus. It is definitely part of the Coryphantha genus ( http://cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Coryphantha ). Yours looks a lot like the Coryphantha elephantidens or Elephant's Tooth. But it might be one of the others as well or a completely endemic species.

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